Sentence examples for in a frightful from inspiring English sources

This has put Shariatmadari in a frightful predicament".

George Barbier's voice thunders from the screen in a frightful fashion.

The regional theatres and the orchestras are in a frightful state.

Kindly allow us to take your table as we are in a frightful hurry".

Almost every study suggests that it's better for parentless children to be adopted by gay or lesbian couples than to be stuck in a frightful foster-care system.

The economy of the early 1930s was, as John Maynard Keynes put it, in "a frightful muddle," and capitalism itself was increasingly seen to be riddled with flaws.

When we find out who told you Brits, they're in for a frightful beating".

The "domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissension," he said, "is in itself a frightful despotism".

Sewell dismissed it all as "a show defiled by feminist claptrap", in particular a "frightful" female nude by Vanessa Bell that was so "ugly and incompetent, it could hardly be the favourite of even a purblind lesbian".

On one dark night in the late 1880s, at his sister's home in St . Louis Twain awoke in terror from-a-frightful, realistic nightmare.

You fall to bits in your 40s – a frightful decade for me – but fall back together in your 50s in some miraculous way.